Cyclists are actually supposed to dismount and walk there bike around the angler not just slow down, they are also supposed to carry a cycle permit obtained from british waterways! As for restocking their has been a lot of hype in the papers that the canals are being restocked, they are not, they are draining and netting certain so called unfished pounds normally ones with cables running down them and then transferring those fish to other pounds that are normally club controlled, this policy has been going on for years especially on luton waters, there are no new fish stocks, eventually these fish spread out again over time, there was a bit in the paper about specimen fish found on the blenheim canal there has always been a high stocking policy carried out by Blenheim whose waters were well known for bumper bream bags to over 100lb they even stocked barbel in the canal for their members so nothing knew there either except that even this canal isn’t a patch on what it used to be. However the canal trust want our support (mainly our money) so that the canal can be for the benefit of all users especially bikes. whilst parking is getting worse for us anglers who want to fish canals and facilities are non existent for example there are less anglers fishing canals a fiver in a council car park a fiver to fish the canal which has very low fish stocks, no facilities as opposed to going to a commy paying a fee of £9, high fish stocks, free secure parking, toilet facilities, shop and café on site, british waterways need to work it out it ain’t rocket science.
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